Board of Directors

Stan Fishkin
Founder and President of Crow Hill Ventures, Ltd. and Crow Hill Capital, Ltd.
Chairman of the Board of SBE, Inc.
Stan Fishkin has more than 30 years experience on Wall Street in a variety of capacities including equity and bond research, investment banking and private equity and institutional sales. Mr. Fishkin founded Crow Hill Ventures, Ltd. and Crow Hill Capital, Ltd. in 1992. Crow Hill Capital Ltd. is an SEC registered investment advisor to high net worth (investible capital of at least $5,000,000) and super high net worth (net worth of at least $25,000,000) individuals. Crow Hill Ventures Ltd invests in non-public companies for its own account and assists individuals by identifying private investment opportunities be they private venture capital funds or direct investments in private companies.
Mr. Fishkin was a partner in NYSE member firms Wertheim Schroder and Gordon Capital and an associate member of the NYSE. In the late ’80s and early ’90s Mr. Fishkin was the CEO and COO of Gordon Capital’s New York operations.
He is member of the board for several companies and philanthropic organizations and a longtime member of the North Country Angels. 

Ed Sawyer, BSEE, MBA
President and CEO, SBE Inc.
In 2002, Mr. Sawyer purchased SBE Inc. and began the task of leading the company into the next sustainable era by first developing protectable technology but then building the capacity to manufacture it profitably. Mr. Sawyer has also overseen the raising of $5 Million in capital to support the growth of SBE since 2004. From 1999 to 2001, Mr. Sawyer worked at Banta Corporation as a VP of North American Operations, with responsibility for over 1500 employees covering 4 locations in the U.S. and Mexico, and prior to that as a Project Leader for the greenfield start‐up of a Business Server Hard Drive Configuration and Final Assembly plant for Compaq Computer, where he took the business from only 25 people to over 700, occupying 500,000 square feet and producing $75 Million in revenue. From 1995 to 1999, he was previously Business Unit General Manager for Emerson Electric Company. Mr. Sawyer has a Bachelor in Electrical Engineering from Tufts University and a MBA from Colorado State University.

Mark Browning
Vice-President Power Ring Division, SBE Inc.
Secretary
Mark joined the staff at SBE in 1989 as manager of technical sales and account development. Throughout his career at SBE he has been involved in many aspects of business development, including new product launches, sales and customer service management, design engineering, technical data sheet development and key marketing activities. Mark’s experience from both a technical nature and customer relationship perspective provide for a strong interface between engineering, production and the customer. Today Mark manages the operations of the Power Ring division, having helped launch the Power Ring product along with Terry Hosking in early 2005. He oversees the design cycle and fulfillment process for this innovative technology. Prior to SBE Mark spent 5 years in the HVAC industry in technical sales and customer service.

Dick Green, BA
Dick Green is co-founder and Managing Director of Granite State Angels, an investment group based in Hanover, NH. He is also Chairman of Jetboil, Inc., producer of innovative cooking products for outdoor enthusiasts. From 1998-2008, Dick was co-founder and Director of VoteHere, Inc, a Seattle-based pioneer of online voting systems, and was Chairman from 1998-2001. From 1983-1993, Dick was co-founder, CEO and Chairman of Corporate Microsystems, Inc, provider of enterprise data communications software solutions. Dick is co-founder of the Grafton County Economic Development Council, and was President from 1999-2004. He is also co-founder of the Dartmouth Regional Technology Center incubator. Dick is a Fellow at the Center for Private Equity and Entrepreneurship at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth, and has served on the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center Assembly of Overseers since 1997. Dick graduated from Dartmouth in 1976, and was awarded the John G. Kemeny Prize in Computing.

Win Hunter, BSEE
Mr. Hunter received a BS from MIT in 1951 (electrical engineering and business). After three years developing military vacuum tubes with Raytheon, he was one of the early employees of Transitron, one of the first companies to develop and manufacture semiconductors. In his 14 years with the company he rose from development engineer to division manager. In 1968 he co-founded Genex, a company to manufacture custom backplane connector systems. They were acquired by Teradyne and he spent 25 years managing the TCS division which was based in Nashua, NH. When he retired in 1993 the company was the leading procucer of these systems and had facilities worldwide. The company is now the TCS Division of Amphenol. He and his wife and now live at Kendal in Hanover, NH.

Bill Poellmitz, BSEE, BA
CEO, ClearSky Mobile Media, Inc.
Mr. Poellmitz is currently President and CEO of ClearSky Mobile Media, Inc., a leading provider of hosted services for regional cellular operators, a company he co-founded in 2001. He also served as COO and CEO of iTRAK Corporation, a developer of wireless GPS tracking solutions. In 1992 Mr. Poellmitz co-founded Cerulean Technology, a venture-funded developer of wireless data software for law enforcement, where he served as CFO and VP Marketing. The company was acquired by Aether Systems in 2000. Earlier, Mr. Poellmitz ran an eight-person international consulting firm, and managed the Latin American and Far East units of Orion Research. Mr. Poellmitz was also co-founder of the WAP Developer Expert Group of the WAP Forum Ltd. From 1988 to 1995, he served as a Board Member for three cellular companies in the Caribbean, and currently is on the Board of ClearSky Mobile Media. Mr. Poellmitz earned degrees in Electrical Engineering and Economics and speaks several languages.

Dwight Sperry, BSME
President, Sperry Consulting Group, LLC.
Dwight Sperry currently manages his own consulting and investment company Sperry Consulting Group, LLC. He is also co-founder of Hanover Technology Group, a provider of Interactive Advertising Tools for the Financial Services Industry. Prior to that he was a Vice President and Group General Manager at American Power Conversion Corporation (APCC), a $2 Billion high tech company developing power systems for the computer industry. He started his career at APC in 1990 in Sales Management and worked in the US, Europe and Japan. In 1996, he became Director of Business Development focused on Strategic Marketing and Mergers & Acquisitions. In 2000, he worked in Denmark as a General Manager running Silcon Power Electronics, a manufacturer or 3 Phase Rectifiers and Inverters. Mr. Sperry holds a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering Degree from Cornell University.

Arlan VanKoevering, BSME, MS
Arlan R.VanKoevering has a BS degree in Mechanical Engineering, General Motors Institute, Flint, Michigan, 1961 and a MS degree from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), with a major in Control Theory, 1962. Arlan is a partner in a company that licenses antilock braking systems software for various vehicle applications. Arlan spent most his career in the aerospace business starting with Lear Inc. as an analytical engineer in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Then Arlan spent 20 years at Lear Siegler in various management positions including Senior VP of Engineering and Business Development. Arlan and his family then moved to Vermont and was President of Simmonds Precision Aerospace for eight years. In 1990, Arlan and his wife moved to Eldec Corp. in Lynwood, Washington where after the acquisition by Crane Co. Arlan was promoted to President. At Eldec Corp., Arlan was responsible for implementing Lean Six Sigma throughout the organization. Arlan retired in 2001 and he and his wife moved back to Vermont.